Đề thi ALL 2021 – Khối lớp 7-8-9
Đề thi National Language Arts League năm 2021 — Grade 7, 8 & 9 Contest. Làm bài có giờ, chấm điểm ngay và xem lại từng câu sai.
Đề thi thật của kỳ thi ALL. American Language League (trước năm 2024 mang tên National Language Arts League – NLAL) là kỳ thi tiếng Anh thường niên dành cho học sinh Mỹ từ lớp 1 đến lớp 12, kiểm tra từ vựng, ngữ pháp, chính tả và đọc hiểu. Đề này nguyên bản dành cho Grade 7-9; đề bài giữ nguyên tiếng Anh, phần hướng dẫn có thêm lời dịch tiếng Việt, đáp án theo bảng đáp án chính thức của ban tổ chức.
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Bảng câu hỏi
PART I Từ vựng Vocabulary
Câu 1–12Từ khung từ ở phía trên, chọn từ gần nghĩa nhất với từ được gạch chân trong mỗi câu. Không phải từ nào trong khung cũng được dùng.
Directions: From the box above each group of sentences, choose the word that is closest to the meaning of the underlined word in each sentence. Write the letter of the word that you choose in the space on the answer sheet.
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1. The conversation helped to cement the rift.
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2. The rampart prevented the enemy from reaching the castle.
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3. He’s a self-assertive upstart.
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4. The scholarly teacher inspired her students to love American writers.
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5. He had to endorse the check before it was cashed.
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6. I wanted to inspire the audience with a love for theater.
Chọn từ có nghĩa giống hoặc gần giống nhất với từ được gạch chân trong câu.
Directions: Read each sentence. One word means the same or nearly the same as the word that is underlined in the sentence. Write the letter of that word on your answer sheet.
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7. An antique decanter was sold for thousands of dollars.
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8. The clay pot was placed in the furnace.
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9. On the wall he had a diagram showing his lineage.
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10. Modulate the exercises for the next class.
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11. The impending deadline was making him nervous.
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12. He added another notch to his belt.
PART II Dấu câu, viết hoa và ngữ pháp Punctuation, Capitalization & Grammar
Câu 13–22Đọc câu và quyết định câu cần sửa gì về dấu câu, viết hoa hoặc ngữ pháp (nếu có), rồi chọn đáp án tương ứng.
Directions: Read each sentence. Decide what if any correction in punctuation, capitalization, or grammar the sentence needs. Write the correct letter on the answer sheet.
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13. My brother who graduated from College in June was hurt in an accident last month.
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14. The answer, I imagine, will be in the English textbook.
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15. His novels are always best-sellers they are translated into four languages.
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16. The high school was located at One Hudson Street, Farley, New Mexico.
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17. I liked the salesmans presentation, and I gave him a good order to be delivered in one month.
Mỗi câu có thể chứa một lỗi ngữ pháp hoặc không có lỗi nào. Chọn phần chứa lỗi, hoặc chọn D nếu câu không có lỗi.
Directions: Read the following sentences. There may be one grammatical error or none in each sentence. Write the correct letter on the answer sheet.
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18. (a) Neither the coach or Jake / (b) is really sorry about the bad luck / (c) or blames anyone for his misfortune.
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19. (a) The secretary for the Union Company / (b) brought we and them / (c) the forms that were printed yesterday.
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20. (a) As you said, / (b) he is overweight / (c) like me.
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21. (a) Sandy will lay down / (b) for a rest and lay / (c) her head on two pillows.
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22. (a) The subway train will come / (b) more sooner / (c) than the bus.
PART III Đọc hiểu Reading Comprehension
Câu 23–38Đọc kỹ bài đọc rồi chọn đáp án đúng cho mỗi câu hỏi bên dưới.
Directions: Read each paragraph. Answer each question by writing the letter of the correct answer in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Paragraph A
I want to dance on the moon!
Well, perhaps on a star will do…
Escape--be free--no obligations--
I want to slide with the winds
And have no ties to the mundane…
I can’t do these things?
Then, what can I do?
What can I have?
A beautiful sunset…
Doing what I can do
in the best way I know how…
Having moments of peace…
Understanding and being understood…
Add those things up…
Not a bad exchange
For a brief whirl in the sky…
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23. In the first two verses of stanza one, the persona (speaker) in the poem sounds .
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24. In stanza two the persona comes to a .
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25. In stanza three the persona seems more .
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26. The persona’s new way of thinking at the end of the work involves .
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27. The persona realizes that a fantasy way of life can only be .
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28. The best title for this selection is .
Paragraph B
William Sydney Porter was also known as O. Henry. He was born on a plantation near Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1862. Porter attended a school run by his grandmother and aunt. When he was fifteen, he left this private school and enrolled in public school. At seventeen he went to work in his uncle’s drugstore. He became a licensed pharmacist four years later. Because of poor health Porter moved to Texas. When his health improved, he worked on a ranch as a handyman and cook. Porter did not stay in one place. He moved to Austin and became a draftsman. After his marriage and the birth of his children, he worked as a teller in a bank. He left his job because of suspicious shortages in his accounting books. Porter went to Houston and took a job as a reporter with a newspaper. He was, however, indicted for embezzlement. Sending the family to Austin, he fled the country and went to Honduras. Because his wife became ill, Porter returned to the United States. He was given a trial, found guilty, and sentenced to five years in jail. After prison he moved to New York City, where over the next eight years until his death in 1910 he published three hundred eighty-one short stories.
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29. Porter was found guilty of .
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30. William Sydney Porter was also known as .
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31. After leaving the bank, Porter .
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32. As a writer Porter was best known for his many .
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33. A type of employment that was not mentioned as part of Porter’s career was .
Paragraph C
Until 1750 nothing but London successes appeared on the American stage. Until the time of the Civil War, there were only about one hundred works by American playwrights. Even these plays were based on an English atmosphere. Drama about American themes really started to come about from the first quarter of the nineteenth century. One writer who appeared at this time was James Nelson Barker. Even he, however, drew on ideas from Scott, Cervantes, and French dramatists. When Barker did turn to American themes, he only used an idea once and then went on to something else. He wrote a Puritan play, an Indian play, a Western play and a social comedy. He met with little success because he was competing against foreign influences. Around the second quarter of the century, a Yankee character appeared on stage. This personality took on various names in different plays and was portrayed in comic relief. The first real hit for this Yankee character was introduced in a work by Woodworth called The Forest Rose. The Yankee type won encouragement and smiles from foreign sources. American writers, however, still felt that there was a lack of American drama. Between 1840 and 1880 a pair of young Irishmen dominated the stage. They were willing to meet demand. They drew ideas from French and other foreign writers, but they also produced some American themes. They wrote about such things as the Shenandoah and such people as Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas, Hiawatha, and Columbus. These men, Boucicault and Brougham, wrote for years. They were finally overshadowed by Augustin Daly, who was the first American really to stem the British tide. He became a distinguished man of the theater.
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34. The early theater in America before the Civil War had plays based primarily on themes from .
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35. James Nelson Barker did hit-and-miss native plays but wasn’t too successful because of .
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36. The Yankee character usually was portrayed as .
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37. Pocahontas and Columbus were characters written about by .
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38. The best title for this selection is .
PART IV Chính tả Spelling
Câu 39–45Mỗi câu được chia thành ba phần (a), (b), (c). Nếu có từ viết sai chính tả, chọn phần chứa từ đó; nếu không có lỗi, chọn D.
Directions: Read each sentence. A word may be misspelled in one part of the sentence. If so, write the appropriate letter on the answer sheet. If no word is misspelled, write the letter D.
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39. (a) Serreptitiously she glanced / (b) around the room as the ponderous words / (c) reverberated in her mind.
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40. (a) Nothing but admiration / (b) was apparant in / (c) his melodious tone.
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41. (a) Alan decided that honesty / (b) was the best policy, though he had no intention / (c) of reveling the full story.
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42. (a) They conspired / (b) to despose / (c) of the evidence.
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43. (a) There was aggravation / (b) shown by the participants / (c) because the judging was poorly done.
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44. (a) Carl fidgated / (b) and cringed under / (c) Diane’s piercing gaze.
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45. (a) She found it difficult / (b) memorizing the many verses / (c) of the melencholy poem.
PART V Quan hệ giữa các từ Word Relationships
Câu 46–50Hai từ đầu câu có một mối quan hệ nhất định. Trong các cặp từ bên dưới, chọn cặp có quan hệ giống như vậy. Ví dụ: Fat is to skinny as — A. tall is to short (đáp án đúng là A).
Directions: In each of the incomplete statements below, two words are related to each other. Following these words are four pairs of related words. Select the pair of words which are related to each other in the same way. Put the correct letter on your answer sheet.
Example: Canine is to dog as .
A. reptilian is to crocodile B. cat is to lion C. bull is to cow D. frog is to tadpole
The correct answer is A.
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46. Leaf is to lettuce as .
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47. Chop is to mince as .
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48. Iron is to steel as .
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49. Sheriff is to crime as .
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50. Bay is to sea as .